It's the start of the summer, and like his friends Dodge, Eyebrows and Pinhead, thirteen-year-old Sean 'Nod' Hickey is looking forward to a good one. But the summer doesn't turn out as any of the boys expect. The long hot days of swimming, hurling, and great laughs like 'the marble thing' cannot gloss over the tensions that begin to surface as awakening sexuality and family pressures erupt into jealousy, aggression and revenge. It is, however, to Sean and Pinhead that the summer and the novel really belong. With subtlety and sensitivity, Helena Close charts the complex dynamics of their friendship: the growing closeness between the boys; their dramatic clashes and conflicts; and the gradual unravelling of their relationship as they struggle to make sense of friendship, love and, most painfully of all, death. Helena Close captures perfectly the raw energy, vulnerability, pain and downright hilarity that is part of growing up. Set in the Limerick of the 1970s, Pinhead Duffy is a moving, funny and multi-layered evocation of the lives of four boys on the brink of manhood.
- ISBN13 9780856407673
- Publish Date 5 March 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 February 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Colourpoint Creative Ltd
- Imprint Blackstaff Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English